For my final paper proposal titled, \u201cThe Memory of Lynching: Analyzing the Culture Narratives of Lynching in the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century,\u201d I will investigate the cultural narratives expressed through white participates and African American antilynching activists. Specifically, how each narrative differed from each other and justified their position for or against lynching. Through my initial research on the historiography of this topic I plan to use the book of historian Edwin T. Arnold author of \u201cWhat Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose\u201d which investigates the lynching of Sam Hose on April 23, 1899, in Newman Georgia. What brought attention to this particular lynching was the brutal torture of Hose by mutilating him, tying him to a tree, burning him alive, and carrying off parts of his remains as souvenirs. One primary source I will be using is white southern newspapers the help answer my historical question, how the language propagated justification of lynching that nourished violence from the white community to become judge and executioner of alleged black criminality. A potential archive I would like to access is the Tuskegee University Archives Repository. This archive has an extensive collection of southern newspapers which focuses on \u00a0lynching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Here is a link<\/a> of a sample of their newspaper collection. To gain a culture perspective of the antilynching activist I will use the online collection from \u201cAfrican American Perspectives, Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection<\/a>\u201d in partnership with the Library of Congress American Memory project. This collection includes pamphlets, journals, songs, and sermons of antilynching activists.<\/p>\n